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Had a whiskey and writing night last night. Very nice. Mostly productive. Felt good to be able to drink alcohol again, and better to be working on my book again. And for tonight: my favorite beer and some Giordano’s pizza. Yay. It’s been another long week.

The great thing about Friday morning commutes is that you can always find a seat on the train. It’s the little things.

Sorry. That’s just the way it is. The world in the palm of a 13-year-old girl. Yes. It’s her body. Her right. Too bad for you, Florida. Maybe you should have been educating girls and women like her, you know, protecting her life and making sure she lived well and had regular check-ups and knew

I’ve read this one before, but I want to bring it up again: So I’m going to tell you about it, Ms. Russ, because I think I’ve just discovered another strategy to suppress women’s writing. You wrote the book, How to Suppress Women’s Writing, describing in gory detail all the different ways that have been

It’s called reversal. Some people think that it’s just hysterically funny–the shit that men do to women. Problem is, it stops being funny when it happens to them. It’s not funny, dammit! When it happens to men, it’s a human rights violation. When it happens to women, it’s just….background. It’s normal. Sexism will always be

The problem with being somebody like me, who is very clear about what works regarding dealing with my “low” days or holiday freakouts, is that when I’m confronted with a serious depression that’s actually caused by my reaction to a new birth control pill, I try to “treat” the medicated depression the same way I

But in one sense, contraception may indeed be the new abortion — that is, the next battleground for reproductive rights. I feel like I’m living in a really, really bad SF novel.

Dear Corporate Visa Fucktards: Why, yes, I realize my corporate card account balance is more than 30 days past due. In fact, it stresses me out, too! It would be a great thing if my fucking employers actually reimbursed me on time, so that I could pay you expediantly and not continue to fuck up

Yay! All my friends are together again!

There’s a big group signing here in Chicago on Sunday, May 1st at the Borders on State Street, downtown. Signers include Cory Doctorow, Kevin J. Anderson, Lois McMaster Bujold, Eric Flint, Janis Ian, Geoffrey Landis, Todd McCaffrey, Jack McDevitt, Rebecca Moesta Anderson, Mike Resnick, Benjamin Rosenbaum, Steven H Silver, Laurel Winter and W.R. Yates. When: